VOLUME 2 NO. 6
Introduction
Introduction 1 The Claims Conference 1 “Effects of the Holocaust on Jewish Child Survivors” 1 Personal Notices 4 “My Lost and Found Homelands” 5 “Kindertransport” 6 JHC Calendar of Events 6
DECEMBER 2014
Dear Child Survivors, The year has rolled by and as we come to the end of 2014 we can reflect on a busy year for the Child survivors. The Time Capsule event was a huge success; our time capsule is filled to the brim with your stories, photos, poems and memories, stored safely in the archives at the Holocaust Centre waiting for the all important “Opening Ceremony “in fifty years time. Child survivor function: We thought it best to hold our annual get together early in the New Year when we will have a representative from Jewish care
attend to answer all your questions regarding your application for the Child Survivor compensation. Thank you to all child survivors who have shared their stories, we look forward to many more contributions, please call me at the JHC on 9528 1985 to register your interest. To all our members especially the newcomers we send you our best wishes for a wonderful Chanukah and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. Warmest regards viv.
Claims Conference Update - December 2014 The CSH Fund is now at the administrative stage due to commence in January 2015, we will be in constant communication with Claims Conference and Jewish Care on your behalf and will let you know immediately the application forms are ready. As mentioned above you will be invited to the JHC for a special meeting regarding the CSH Compensation when
all the details are finalized. We understand who ever receives and Article 2 pension, BEG or Slave Labour Fund may be contacted directly by Claims Conference via a letter early 2015. We look forward to contacting you soon with more details, and a reminder that you can contact Jewish Care for any help and support you may need 8517 5999.
Effects of the Holocaust on Jewish Child Survivors A Review of Their Traumas and After-effects Introduction One and a half million Jewish children were purposefully murdered in the Holocaust. The 10% who survived are arguably the remnants of the most massive trauma on a most vulnerable group in history. Effects of the Holocaust were recognized in adults in the 1960s. Effects on the children of
these survivors were recognised in the 1970s. Child survivors (those who were 16 years old or younger during Nazi occupation), were the last group to be recognized, in the 1980s, forty years after the Holocaust, when most child survivors were around fifty years old. Now they are around 80 years old. They are still not recognised easily as the one and a half generation; meaning that they are both survivors and children of survivors. In fact, the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, and the most traumatized group of the Holocaust became also the most unrecognized one. Why was that? Like abused children, children of the Holocaust did not know that they were traumatised. They demurred, saying that they were “only children” in the war,